Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the 'Inverse-U' Profile?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 282-306

  Myck, Michał ^a,b,c  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b And Centre for Economic Analysis ^*  (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77953221964     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2009.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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